In Conegliano an exhibition dedicated to the Ciardi between landscapes and gardens

Palazzo Sarcinelli in Conegliano will host from February 16 to June 23, 2019 the exhibition I Ciardi. Landscapes and Gardens, curated by Giandomenico Romanelli with Franca Lugato and Stefano Zampieri.
Promoted by the City of Conegliano and Civita Tre Venezie, the exhibition will be dedicated to one of the most established families of artists from Veneto: the Ciardi.

In a period of great changes in painting, towards a painting inclined to a study from life, Guglielmo and his sons Beppe and Emma became absolute protagonists of the Venetian, Italian and international art scene. “The richness of their choice in favor of landscape is measured in the radical innovations that they, especially Guglielmo, knew how to introduce into this pictorial genre: light declined in all possible atmospheres, the living and palpitating presence of nature in plants, fields, harvests, expanses of heather; the often rough majesty of mountainous masses, caught in the blue light of dawn or in the poignant, orangey light of sunsets; the rows, sheaves, and streams of water,” Romanelli stressed.

The retrospective will offer more than sixty works, highlighting the most significant features of the three artists: they will be works mainly related to the representation of nature and the Veneto landscape. These come from the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice, from Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Udine, and from the Galleia Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, with a significant nucleus of paintings kept in storage and exhibited to the public after about twenty years, as well as from private collections.

The exhibition will begin with Guglielmo’s beginnings, in which the influence of the nineteenth-century landscape tradition can still be seen in the early and unpublished 1859 painting River Landscape; the years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice under the guidance of Domenico Bresolin and the importance of landscape in the Veneto hinterland will then be analyzed.

The second section will be devoted to Emma ’s art: the painter rediscovers the great Guardesque tradition in an unprecedented ironic and lively eighteenth-century style with a clear modern and citationist taste. Her numerous artistic wanderings in Europe will also be presented, evidenced by a comparison of some of Guglielmo and Emma’s works.

The last section will be devoted to Beppe’s artistic activity, presented highlighting the author’s modernity and Symbolist accents. It will introduce more typically twentieth-century elements until giving space to a personal vision of landscape. Evident is his attraction to Nordic symbolism and fascination with the work of Böcklin. In his painting, in addition to a calm presence of animals and shepherds, the centrality of the human figure gradually asserts itself, which, thanks to the lesson of Ettore Tito, sometimes emancipates itself to the point of prevailing over the landscape.

For info: www.mostraciardi.it

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 11 euros, reduced 8.50 euros for students, over 65. Free for children up to 6 years old.

Image: Guglielmo Ciardi, Morning in May (1869; Oil on canvas, 57 x 77.8 cm; Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’Pesaro on deposit c/o Vega, inv. 699)

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In Conegliano an exhibition dedicated to the Ciardi between landscapes and gardens

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